What’s up everyone, another small update here, not much to report at the moment, things are just kind of cruising along on autopilot, these earthboxes don’t really leave you too much to do, which is good and bad to different degrees. Gonna try to post some more details this time of just my personal observations up to this point, so bear with me as I try to chop things up appropriately.
K2:
Structure wise this one remains my favorite so far. She’s got a very sturdy main beach, as well as sturdy looking side beaches which is unique to this particular pheno. Her leaves seem to have gotten thinner as she’s gone deeper into flower. All through veg this was the broad leaf pheno, but now that we’re into the main event things seem to be thinning out. Stem rub on this one is this kind of astringent cleaner smell, which x is actually the stem rub that all of them are giving off: just a vague floor cleaner/ammonia type of thing. I did however pluck a lower leaf this morning though and got a distinct grape smell when I gave it a sniff, so there might be something more to develop there.
K3:
Still kind of the wild one of the bunch, she’s got a very bushy structure to her, and much thinner branches than her sisters. Same generic astringent stem rub, no other smells to note even after plucking fans. I don’t really know what to make of this one honestly, she’s a little crowded out by her sister in the same EB, and just generally doesn’t seem to have anything spectacularly special about her as of this writing. She seems to be sporting more bud sites than the K2, but beyond that there’s not much about her that really catches my eye. Reserving judgement until the smoke comes down of course, but between her two sisters she seems to be the one that’s easily overlooked.
K4:
This gal is interesting to say the least. She’s sporting a very thick, sturdy looking main stem but very noodly looking side branches, which I’m not as big a fan of. The stretch on this one is what grabs your attention. Her main stem stretched double the height of her lowers and the overall height of her two sisters, and that main stem has really nicely tigh spaced nodes all the way up. If it all fills in it’d be an impressive cola, but I have the sense that these are going to be more dense popcorn nug structures overall as opposed to bread loaves. Same astringent stem rub as her sisters, this one grabs your eye just cause she’s a fucking monolith in the tent, slightly worried about bleaching out that too bud, but whatever.
The pollinated branches on all 3 girls seem to be developing nicely, and as I pointed out there are a few spots of random seeds popping up outside of the targeted branches, but that’s no big deal to me, should still have plenty of unseeded buds on each to judge quality and keeper-isms of any one pheno. Right now I’m debating with myself as to whether or not to top dress these boxes another time or not. I have myself convinced that the leaf weirdness I was seeing was a combination of PH issues and going really hard on the top dressing early on in flower, so part of me is tempted to see how these things do just riding out what’s in there, if anything I might just water in some blue gold, but we’ll see, my opinions and thoughts on approach change with the winds. That’s kinda it for now though, just trucking along, I’m trying not to rush things along here and enjoy the grow bu I have so much stuff backed up in the veg tent to get in here and flower that I’m kinda wringing my hands about it. I’m thinking that I might drop in a cut of the MOB in like a 3 gal pot over top of the space that the K1 used to occupy just to get a sense of what that flower is like, but we’ll see how the timing works out for that. Hope everyone has a good week. Love.